Reconstructing Quaternary EnvironmentsRoutledge, 28 oct. 2014 - 568 pages This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary stratigraphy are also discussed. The volume concludes with a new chapter which considers some of the key questions about the nature, causes and consequences of global climatic and environmental change over a range of temporal scales. This synthesis builds on the methods and approaches described earlier in the book to show how a number of exciting ideas that have emerged over the last two decades are providing new insights into the operation of the global earth-ocean-atmosphere system, and are now central to many areas of contemporary Quaternary research. This comprehensive and dynamic textbook is richly illustrated throughout with full-colour figures and photographs. The book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals in Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physical Geography, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Archaeology and Anthropology |
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... and laboratory methods Sediment sections Coring Laboratory methods Particle size measurements Particle shape Surface textures of quartz particles 3.2.3.4 3.2.3.5 3.2.3.6 3.2.3.7 3.2.3.8 3.2.3.9 3.3 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.2.1.
... Measurement and problems Some applications of fission track dating Luminescence dating General principles Measurement and problems Developments in luminescence dating Age ranges and applications of luminescence dating Electron spin ...
... measurements Variations in eustatic sea level over a) the past 1 Ma and b) the last 500 ka Comparison of seven different eustatic sealevel records from the last glacial cycle a) Rise in eustatic sea level since the LGM; b) Land ...
... measurements covering the period 14 ka to the present from Hδlloch Cave, Bavarian Alps, Germany. b) Timberline record from the Eastern Alps, Austria δ 18 O record from Hulu Cave, China and the δ 8 O trace from the 3.43 3.44 3.45 3.46 ...
... measurements to generate ring width indices Ancient bristlecone pines growing in the White Mountains of California a) Fossil oak trunks excavated from gravel beds of the River Danube valley. b) A section through one of the trunks of ...
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